Early editions of the Arizona Weekly Citizen were
filled with accounts of skirmishes
with Native Americans as westward expansion encroached upon Native American
lands. Upset over Indian attacks, in 1870 the paper highlighted an offer by the
Mexican government to pay a $300
bounty for each Apache scalp. The hostilities came to a head in the early
morning hours of April 30, 1871, when a group of men from Tucson massacred more
than 100 Apaches in the Camp
Grant Massacre. Officials arrested the men but a court later
acquitted them.

The invention of air-conditioning
to combat sweltering Arizona heat led to significant growth in Arizona’s population.
During the 1930s, the first public buildings in Tucson got
air conditioning, followed by homes
in later decades. If you are tracing ancestors that lived in Tucson, search for
marriage,
death, and birth announcements. If you’re lucky, you just might find a
biographical sketch of your ancestor like
these for members of the 1883 Territorial Legislature.

If you have ancestors from Jasper, Indiana, you’ll be
excited to hear we’ve added The Dubois Herald
and the Jasper
Weekly Courier to our archives. The Dubois Herald began as The
Jasper Herald, a weekly that started in 1895. In 1946, the paper, known
then as The Dubois County Herald, started publishing six days a week.
That tradition continues today, and The Dubois Herald has chronicled
Jasper’s history for 124 years. Jasper has strong German roots and many of
today’s residents can trace their heritage back to the mid-19th
century when Father
Joseph Kundek, a Catholic Priest, promoted Jasper to German immigrants.
That heritage is celebrated annually during the Strassenfest
celebration. If you have ancestors that lived in nearby townships like Cuzco,
Ferdinand, or Ireland, the Correspondence
Column included updates from citizens of those communities.

18 thoughts on “New Papers Added from Arizona and Indiana!”

Awesome news about Jasper Weekly published in Dubois County Indiana becoming a part of Newspapers.com. I’m a genealogist is Southwest Indiana; this addition will be a valuable resource. Thank you, Ken Colbert in Evansville, Indiana

Just yesterday at my 50 th high school reunion the topic of the country’s leadership ignoring so many treaties was discussed. My great grandmother’s younger brother died 21 December 1866 in an example of at least one treaty being ignored in northern Wyoming. The reunion question was how do we who were brought up in Ohio and not part of what went on then do better than our ancestors. Living in northern Arizona in retirement for only a few months, I do not know very much about current Day relationships. It seems a great loss of diversity. The natives lived with nature. I could not survive without grocery stores and electricity for my cell phone. So much I do not know . Thank you for your discussion.

Yes there was death to the white men but we were in crouching on their land! We came to the America land, killed their wild life animals, starved them, marched them from the eastern boarders across the country to OK badlands where even more Native Americans were displaced.

This was their homelands and we were the intruders, not them. I am sorry that we never respected their way of life nor showed respect for their lands. We cut their trees, ate their live stock and disrespected them. They were only trying to survive. This is a very sore subject with me as you can tell.

I’ve always been interested in details about Arizona, since I was born in Florence, AZ, March 12, 1939, while Arizona was still a new U.S. state. I subscribed to Arizona Highways for many years, and wonder if it is still published. My mother and her parents left Oklahoma during the dust storm era, moving west, working where they could, landing in the cotton fields of Arizona where mom met dad – and that’s another tale.

I get many good news stories from Fort Wayne newspapers at newspapers.com. Even those who didn’t live there, there are often stories that cover the smaller towns nearby. The stories I find make my ancestors come alive. I use the full subscription. It’s worth it to me.